Dem Senator Mark Warner:
Dem Leader: Give Trump Credit, He’s Done More to ‘Punch Back’ at Russia Than Bush, Obama
Friday, November 15, 2019
On this day in 1777,
Continental Congress
Adopts Articles of Confederation
A Hip Hughes History Video Summary
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Cliff's Book Notes
Why Religion?
by Elaine Pagels
This is not a story about a conventional path to conventional religious beliefs.
This is the personal story of how one of the world’s leading historians of religion, the daughter of an atheist, went to a Billy Graham crusade at age 15 and committed her life to Christ, only to soon after reject evangelical Christianity, but who then used her groundbreaking religious scholarship, and support from Trappist monks, to fight off the grief that overwhelmed her following the death of her high school boyfriend in a car crash (the same car crash survived by Jerry Garcia who later named his band “The Grateful Dead”), the death of her five year old son, and then 18 months later the death of her husband after he fell 1,000 feet while on a hike.
Andrew McCarthy
The president decides foreign policy - not me, Col. Vindman or the Deep State
"The government’s policy community has gotten so political, it has forgotten that its mission is to implement the president’s policies, not undermine them."Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Liberal law prof Jonathan Turley
Adam Schiff's Bribery Theory of Impeachment is Constitutionally and Historically Unsound
One of my favorite Civil War anecdotes.
On this day in 1861,
On this day in 1861,
Gen. McClellan Snubs President Lincoln
Walks past Lincoln sitting in his anteroom and goes to bed.
Says Lincoln "a well-meaning baboon"
Prefers to discuss war strategy with pro-slavery Democrats
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
On this day in 1948,
Japanese WWII Officials, Including Tojo,
Found Guilty of War Crimes, Sentenced to Death
Video of verdicts
On this day in 1864
Union Gen. Sherman's"Total War" Burns Atlanta Biz District
and Plunders Georgia in "March to the Sea"
Video summary
Monday, November 11, 2019
101 years ago today, on the 11th hour of 11th day of the 11th month of 1918:
World War I, The War To End All Wars, Ends
9 Million Soldiers and 7 Million Civilians Killed
A Hip Hughes History video summary of the background of WWI
Sunday, November 10, 2019
On this day in 1975,
The Edmund Fitzgerald Sinks in Lake Superior
Video
"The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald"
Gordon Lightfoot
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
[Former version:] That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
[Latter version:] That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early
The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
Then later that night when the ship's bell rang
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?
The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
When the wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too
'Twas the witch of November come stealin'
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezing rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck
Saying, "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya."
[Former version:] At seven PM a main hatchway caved in
[Latter version:] At seven PM it grew dark, it was then
He said, "Fellas, it's been good to know ya."
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below, Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered
[Former version:] In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
[Latter version:] In a rustic old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
[Former version:] That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
[Latter version:] That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early
The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
Then later that night when the ship's bell rang
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?
The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
When the wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too
'Twas the witch of November come stealin'
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezing rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck
Saying, "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya."
[Former version:] At seven PM a main hatchway caved in
[Latter version:] At seven PM it grew dark, it was then
He said, "Fellas, it's been good to know ya."
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below, Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered
[Former version:] In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
[Latter version:] In a rustic old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early
On this day in 1865,
Dr. Henry Wirz, Commandant of Confederate Prison Camp Andersonville, Hanged for War Crimes
Walt Whitman saw some of the camp survivors and wrote,
“There are deeds, crimes that may be forgiven, but this is not among them.”
Video
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